California Biographies
Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
ROSEBROUGH, J. W. Was born in Virginia, October 13, 1813. When he was seventeen years of age his
parents moved to Missouri, where they followed farming for twelve years. The subject of this sketch
enlisted in the Mexican War and served for fourteen months. He then returned to Missouri, where he
remained until May, 1849, when he started across the plains for California. On arriving he engaged at
once in mining, which he followed until the succeeding June, when he opened a store at Ringold, near
Hangtown. This business he prosecuted until July, 1851, when he sold out and moved to Sacramento,
where hotel-keeping was followed about ten months. We next find Mr. Rosebrough in Yolo County,
farming, where he remained until October, 1866, at which time he came to Lake County and settled
near Kelseyville, where his former occupation was resumed until 1868, when he settled on his present
place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, located about three miles north from Rice's mill. He
was married, April 2, 1851, to Miss Catharine Patton, a native of Alabama. They have two living
children, Jennettie and Eliza; and have lost two, Robert and Sarah.